| 单词 | bid farewell |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbid farewell 9. In to bid welcome, bid adieu, bid farewell, bid good bye, bid good morning, the original notion was probably that of ‘pray,’ ‘invoke,’ or ‘wish devoutly’; the phrases are now used without analysis, ‘bid’ being little more than = ‘say, utter, express’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use courteous actions or expressions to [verb (transitive)] > welcome welcomec1000 faina1300 to make joyc1300 to bid welcomea1400 to bid, wish (a person) welcome (home)a1400 gratulate?1567 bewelcome1582 greet1608 to give (someone) the glad hand1895 glad-hand1895 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > use courteous actions or expressions to [verb (transitive)] > bid farewell to beteachc1314 bid farewella1400 teacha1400 to beteach one good dayc1400 to bid (also say) adieu (to)c1425 farewella1586 lenvoy1596 adieu1602 speed1726 to tell a person goodbye1853 sayonara1883 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 15060 [C]um nu forth, þu blisced king in vr lauerdis name, þe..biddes þe welcum hame. 1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1859) ii. lxv. 59 I bad hym adyeu. 1485 W. Caxton tr. Lyf St. Wenefryde 9 She toke leue of this holy man and bad hym fare well. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Sept. 1 I bidde her God day. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iv. 31 A brace of draimen bid, God speed him wel. View more context for this quotation 1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 32 At my window bid good morrow. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 27. ⁋4 He'll bid adieu to all the Vanity of Ambition. 1844 tr. M. T. Asmar Mem. Babylonian Princess II. 311 I now..respectfully bid the British public farewell. to bid farewell 1. (a) The int. used substantively as a name for itself, and hence for any equivalent, as in to say farewell to. With this has now coalesced the originally distinct use in to bid farewell, where farewell represents historically the infinitive, not as elsewhere the imperative, of the verbal phrase. (b) An utterance of the word ‘farewell’; any expression or act equivalent to this; a parting salutation, formal leave-taking, adieu. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous act or expression > [noun] > parting salutation farewell1393 adieua1425 bonally1488 goodbye1575 vale1583 adios1592 valediction1619 ave1634 vale-dictum1638 sayonara1872 bye-bye1875 hasta la vista1888 valedictory1892 bye1935 arrivederci1938 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 268 But farewell she was ago Unto Pallas. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts xviii. 21 Bad them feare well. 1570 T. North tr. A. F. Doni Moral Philos. (1888) IV. 229 For a farewell..he will yerke out behinde and put him in daunger of his life. 1589 J. Jane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 791 But we litle regarding their curtesie, gaue them the gentle farewell, and so departed. 1633 J. Ford Broken Heart iv. i. sig. I2 She..begg'd some gentle voyce to tune a farewell To life and griefes. 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 12 So their Visitor bid them farewel . View more context for this quotation 1710 J. Addison Whig Examiner No. 1. ⁋14 I take my farewel of this subject. 1758 S. Hayward Seventeen Serm. xvi. 490 He was going to bid all things here an everlasting farewel. 1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 367 Fondly look'd their last, And took a long farewell. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. xiii. 119 She had wept her last farewell on her mother's bosom. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam cxxi. 190 I cannot think the thing farewell . View more context for this quotation 1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. 116 ‘I came to bid you farewell’, he said softly. 1884 Illustr. London News 1 Nov. 410/2 The ‘farewells’..of actors and singers are not always to be depended on. < as lemmas |
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